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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
Writer
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.
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Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
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It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
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We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
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Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
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By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.
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First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.
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Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.
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No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.
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Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
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With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.
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Motivation is motive in action.
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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